Wire hoop



(No Model.)

J. 0. DURLING.

- WIRE 11003.

No. 356.578. Patented Jan. 25; 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB O. DURLING, OF MARINE CITY, MICHIGAN.

WIRE HOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,578,dated January 25, 1887. Application filed September 23, 1886. SerialNo. 214,391. (No model.)

To (all whom, it may concern:

Be it it known that I, J A0013 0. DURLING, of Marine City, in the couutyof St. Clair and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Wire Hoop, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part there of. in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a part of one of my improved hoops, showing its application to a barrel. Fig. 2 is a plan View.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre spondiug parts in both the views.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive device for locking the ends of wire hoops usedfor hooping barrels, packages, and boxes.

My invention consists in the combination of parts, including their construction, substantially as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

The oblong plate A, of iron, steel, or other suitable material, is provided with holes a a,

and is slightly offset between the holes, so that the portions of the plate in which the holes are formed are inclined to the general plane of the plate, to facilitate the entrance of the ends of the wire hoop. The ends b b of the wire hoop B are inserted from opposite directionsin the holes of the plate A, the ends being passed above and below the plate and allowed to overlap slightly beyond the series of holes at each end of the plate. If itis desired to tighten the hoop upon the barrel or package before fastening it, the ends of the wire hoop B are drawn in opposite directions through the holes of the plate A. The hoop is fastened by flattening the bends of the wire and of the plate by hammering, or in any other convenient way, and the Wire hoop is held in place on the barrel by staples c, driven into the barrel near the fastening and at intervals in the circumference of the hoop.

My improved hoops may be made complete in different sizes ready to be applied to a barrel in the same manner as an ordinary hoop, or the fasteners may be furnished separately and applied to the wire after it is wrapped around the barrel or package. By making the holes oblong or cutting transverse slits in the plates A the fastenings may he applied to fiat hoops.

Havingthus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- In a wire-hoop lock, the combination, with 

